By Mabel Doge Luhan “Hello! I’m a total piece of shit! I despise you and will make you suffer! Vote for me!” It’s not often that a politician openly announces…

By Mabel Doge Luhan Have you ever been tempted? For example, when the neighborhood rapscallions offered you a bunch of BIG SHINY NICKELS in exchange for THOSE TEENY-TINY DIMES? Or…

By Mabel Doge Luhan What’s that? A Saipan newspaper article with a brain? Shockingly, the Marianas Variety’s October 14th article “Retirees want a Settlement Fund trustee from NMI” includes ACTUAL…

By Mabel Doge Luhan Oops, he did it again! I am referring, of course, to Bryan Manabat, and his headline in the October 23 Marianas Variety: “Former Hyatt to reopen…

By Mabel Doge Luhan PIC just closed down. “Temporarily,” the Saipan Tribune tells us (“PIC temporarily closes water park, rooms” https://www.saipantribune.com/news/local/pic-temporarily-closes-water-park-rooms/article_1fa0d34e-8e9e-11ef-a757-1794197681d9.html ). How does the Saipan Tribune — its article had…

By Mabel Doge Luhan After a half-century of trying, I finally managed to configure the LES NOUVELLES screen on my MINITEL, and the polls, the simulations, and especially the betting…

By Mabel Doge Luhan On October 8, Kandit sent the Marianas Visitors Authority an Open Government Act request. We asked for a roster of who went on MVA’s latest trip…

By Mabel Doge Luhan This law thing — are we serious about it or not? Our newspapers, social media, comments sections / psychiatric overflow facilities, and fiesta tables are full…

No real change so far; the bribes, gangsters, and underwhelming overtures continue By Mabel Doge Luhan How soon is now? Our Commonwealth’s problems were supposed to get better after we…

By Mabel Doge Luhan [Friday] evening, I was strolling my bull mastiff when I came upon a swarm of 1993 Toyota Tercels parked upon Guangdong Hardware Road. Were they extra-early…